This course is designed to provide students of industrial relations with a sound theoretical foundation for understanding and managing the employment relationship. Four broad principles anchor the course:
- The employment relationship is characterized by complex socio-economic exchange among the parties.
- The goal of employment relations theory is not only to better understand people at work in employment situations but also to facilitate better policy-making.
- Employment relationships can be viewed at different levels, i.e., at the level of the individual, workplace, organization, industry, nation-state, and supra-national levels.
- Shifts in the global economy have created new pressures on employment relationships.
